Ancient Quote by Teresa Bloomingdale

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might…

— Nolan North

“A strange thing happens when one speaks aloud: words take on their own meaning. They move in through the listener's ears and make themselves…

— K. Arsenault Rivera

My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without…

— Pete Wentz

When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.

— Billy Sunday

When I was young we weren't even allowed to speak our own languages in school. They called it 'vernacular,' as if only English was…

— Fela Kuti

I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to…

— Temple Grandin

Language is like drinking from one's own reflection in still water. We only take from it what we are at the time.

— Simon Van Booy

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?

— Jackson Browne

“I’m not a linguist, but do you ever think there’s something wrong with the things we do and don’t have words for?”

— Yoon Ha Lee

Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that…

— James Wan

“It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using.”

— Timothy Gowers

I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

— Jacques Derrida